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This 1970 Chevy Suburban Costs More Than Most Supercars

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The company has long offered custom resto-modded SUVs with deep-six-figure price tags, and it’s now set its sights on the Chevy Suburban. Icon will reveal the wild 1970 Suburban in the flesh on November 19th at a charity event in Southern California. Icon’s vehicles have never been cheap, but its latest vehicle goes above and beyond.

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Rolls-Royce Droptail, Ferrari 412P: Lately’s Automotive Information

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The cost tag is assumed to exceed $25 million. The design was once at first crafted for a race automotive to compete within the 1970 Can-Am Form, however as a result of restricted sources it was once by no means old—till now. A Ferrari has simply bought for over $30 million.

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Junkyard Find: 1964 Mercury Montclair Four-Door Hardtop Marauder

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Most accounts of the origin of the Montclair name state that it was derived from the name of the closest affluent town to Ford's Mahwah Assembly plant in New Jersey. The door tag tells us that this car was assembled in St. The Marauder name got ditched in 1966, then revived on a massive personal luxury coupe for 1969 - 1970.

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Switch International slashes fuel consumption

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Switch International, which was established in 1970, is now part of the TWT Logistics Group and has a five acre site in Andover. “We chose the Renault Premium for its excellent fuel consumption figures as the two new vehicles are now doing in excess of 9.6 It acquired the trucks from Renault Trucks South West.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Colorful weather maps on TV news programs. In the mid-1970s, close to half of the top 100 computer scientists in the world were working at PARC, and the laboratory boasted similar strength in other fields, including solid-state physics and optics. In 1970, Shoup, who is now chairman of Aurora Systems Inc., Laser printers.

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